Nanjing City.

Standing at the top of the city, Xu Xi, Duke of Dingguo, stared blankly at the Qinhuai River with flames soaring into the sky in the distance, motionless. Next to him was Xiong Mingyu, the temporary minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing. The two of them stood stiffly at the top of the city.

, like two iron men.

"Why, don't you send troops to rescue?" Xiong Mingyu asked sarcastically.

"We don't have enough troops, so we can only stand tight and wait for reinforcements." Hearing the other party's tone, his face twitched, and then he replied coldly.

Now that all the guarding eunuchs outside have been recalled, all the power in the Nanjing area falls on these two people, who can decide with one word. However, judging from the current atmosphere, it seems that there is a vague discord between the two.

"Insufficient troops?" Xiong Mingyu smiled sarcastically, "Then Wang San has gathered a group of sea bandits, can he defeat Dingguo Gong, who has been guarding the southeast for generations, and retreat? Can't even protect the grain?"

"The Xiong Military Department doesn't know something. Now that the Southeast Guard is in decline, it can't even protect itself. How can we send out troops to suppress it? We can only wait for reinforcements from the capital." Xu Xi remained unmoved, but his expression softened slightly.

"Haha, you can't protect yourself. Your Majesty the Duke of Guo is really a good example of receiving the favor of the country. However, Duke Cheng has learned from his past mistakes. I hope Duke Ding will not delay himself." Xu Xi's answer made Xiong Ming feel a panic.

Laughing, there was unspeakable sarcasm in the laughter. After a cold sarcasm, he tossed his sleeves and went down to the city alone.

He was really angry at these honorable worms. Nowadays, the national situation is difficult and the military affairs in Liaodong are in decline. These honorable nobles who have been favored by the country do not want to serve the country. Instead, they hold the few soldiers and horses in their hands in order to strengthen themselves.

It's really disgusting.

Xiong Mingyu actually knew very well about the Japanese pirates raging outside the city. They were not real Japanese pirates at all. They were all pretended to be pirates at sea. Now they were just taking advantage of the southern navy to move northward and being unable to suppress it, so they went to the land to cause robberies.

plunder.

But now the imperial court was defeated and the country was humiliated by the loss of troops in Liaodong. Almost the entire Liaodong was abandoned. The news spread and the southern country was shocked. These bandits seized this opportunity and went ashore to plunder on a large scale, which was almost controllable. Of course, this was not

The crime is important, but even more important are the transactions behind the scenes.

Xiong Mingyu, who is from Nanchang and is half Jiangnan, has vaguely heard about the mastermind behind this time. It seems that all these troubles are caused by the Moling Wang family. As a local weaving family, the Moling Wang family

, has thousands of machine workers in his hands, and used to traffic silk overseas. He was quite prosperous, but because he was involved in the Hongwan case, he was accused of being a traitor, and his family fled overseas.

I thought it would be just a few families in exile, but I didn't expect that the other party would gather such a large number of bandits at some point and come ashore to plunder.

The entire surrounding prefectures and counties at the southern Zhili level remained unmoved. No one sent troops to encircle and suppress them. They all closed the city gates tightly and allowed thousands of bandits to roam the southeast as if they were in an uninhabited country. Even the guards were like this.

, the Ministry of War continued to write, treating it as child's play, and responded to a letter that the bandits were too powerful to contend with, so they just stood aside and watched.

What a shame, what a shame! Xiong Mingyu thought bitterly, but there was nothing he could do. Now the empire is allocating its strength to Liaodong, bandits are rampant in South Zhili, and there is also a chieftain rebellion in the southwest. It is really a troubled time. Xiong Mingyu also rushed

The newly appointed officers are unable to control the corrupted guardsmen. They can only watch thousands of bandits wreaking havoc across the southern country for thousands of miles, as if they are in an uninhabited land.

Tianjin harbor!

As soon as the naval general Yu Zigao came back, he started to be busy, replenishing ammunition, summarizing experience, supplying materials, and a series of busy matters that kept him busy. At the same time, he also had to prepare ships to carry Qin Liangyu and him.

The white pole soldiers went to the southeast to quell the rebellion.

About a few months into the forty-eighth year of Wanli, Qin Liangyu was sent to Liaodong to rush for reinforcements. However, Wanli died when she first arrived at Shanhaiguan. What followed was a series of things. After Qin Liangyu arrived at Shanhaiguan, no one detained her. She had no military department.

Even with the order, I could not leave or leave the customs on my own, so I just stayed in Shanhaiguan.

In history, during this period, Qin Liangyu's two younger brothers went out to fight with the Tatars. One of the younger brothers, Qin Bangping, died in the battle, and the other younger brother, Qin Minping, broke out later. Later, due to the depletion of troops, Qin Liangyu came again with three thousand soldiers and horses.

Later, when the imperial court saw the fierceness of the chieftain's troops, he asked Qin Liangyu to return to his hometown to recruit troops. So in September of the first year of Tianqi, Qin Liangyu took his other brother Qin Minping back to his hometown to recruit troops.

At this time, She Chongming rebelled, and Qin Liangyu was ordered to put down the rebellion.

Of course, these are things in past history. Due to Zhu Youxiao's actions in this time and space, in the first year of Taichang, after Qin Liangyu reunited with his two younger brothers, he did not go out to fight, but stayed in Shanhaiguan. And Zhu Youxiao

The principal didn't know this. He just passed by Shanhaiguan on his way back and saw this name by chance.

This sight aroused his interest. Unexpectedly, the famous female general in the late Ming Dynasty was actually in Shanhaiguan at this time, and he counted about 6,000 soldiers and horses under her command, all composed of young people from Sichuan.

The chieftain's soldiers and horses are fierce in nature and have quite good combat effectiveness. Although the battle between large groups is not as good as that of the Yulin Army, they are more than one level stronger than the Liaodong soldiers and horses.

When he saw these soldiers and horses, Zhu Youxiao suddenly had an idea in his mind: Aren't these people the best candidates to deal with the pirates in the southeast?

The Yulin Army practices large group battles. It is good at face-to-face toughness, but it is not very good at dealing with scattered people such as pirates. It is a waste to get too many people, and there are too few people to go, so it does not work. These chieftains

Soldiers and horses are good at cooperating with small groups to fight, so they are the best candidates, and the number of 6,000 people is also just right.

With a move in his heart, Zhu Youxiao took Qin Liangyu back to the capital and ordered him to go to Tianjin Port. Yu Zigao sent troops to carry him to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas to cooperate with each other to suppress the invading Japanese pirates.

"Mrs. Ma, how are your army's preparations going?" Yu Zigao asked politely. Qin Liangyu's prime minister's surname was Ma, so Yu Zigao was so well-matched.

"Everything is ready. Your Majesty is so kind and has given you such sophisticated equipment. The soldiers can't wait to go into battle to kill the enemy." Qin Liangyu looked at the Sichuan chieftain soldiers behind him who kept stroking their breastplates and stainless steel swords, and his face

The top smiles.

Although the emperor has not yet integrated them into a formal organization like the Yulin Army, he has given them a lot of equipment and weapons, which made Qin Liangyu feel very good.

The chieftain's soldiers and horses have a fierce temperament. They have been running in the mountains and forests all year round, and their bodies are also very strong. However, they suffer from the lack of good swords and armor. Every time they kill the enemy, they can only use the ubiquitous white pole spears, which causes very heavy casualties. This is also the result of her men.

The origin of the title "White Pole Soldier".

All this is not because of the distrust of the imperial court, which dare not fully arm the soldiers and horses of these young people, but Zhu Youxiao does not care about these, and the hundred-smelted steel swords that have been forged many times are distributed like water, and the cast iron swords are handed out like water.

The same goes for the breastplate, which made these chieftain soldiers and horses who had never had such luxurious equipment feel happy.

"Okay, let's go!" Yu Zigao replied with a smile, and he felt excited in his heart. This time was a good opportunity for him to fight on the battlefield again, and he was still the leader of the army. He was really happy.

Woohoo!

The bugle sounded, and headed by ten gunboats and two clipper ships cruising on both sides, followed by a large number of lucky ships, the huge naval fleet set out again, this time their target was Nanjing.

They not only want to suppress the rebellion there, but also build a port so that the soldiers can transport grain from the sea. The interruption of water transportation this time is also good news. In the future, they can directly switch to sea transportation.

"It's almost time for the navy to set off. With Yu Zigao and Qin Liangyu, there's no need to worry over there. The key thing is the She'an Rebellion in Sichuan and Guizhou." Zhu Youxiao looked at the official document in front of him with a headache, unsure of what to pay attention to.

When he came back, what greeted him was not a life of enjoyment, but countless backlogs of official documents from the cabinet, Hebei Province, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Several departments had piled up many documents, which required Zhu Youxiao to browse and approve them.

Especially the three departments of the Cabinet, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Now that the administrative level has just been upgraded, they can only change. The past rules cannot be applied. Everything needs to be re-run and accumulated over time. Therefore, in the initial stage

, the exchange of documents was very frequent, but it happened that at this time Zhu Youxiao went to the imperial chariot to fight in person.

This is simply giving up the job! Several big guys cursed in their hearts, but they had no choice but to wait for the emperor to come back. Fortunately, the emperor's expedition went very smoothly this time, and the big guys could happily dump the burden to him.

The emperor is waiting for the verdict from above.

Therefore, on the second day after returning, Zhu Youxiao issued several imperial edicts in succession, defining grades, constructing new government agencies, and adjusting the defense area of ​​the capital's city defense forces.

With Zhu Youxiao's approval, the next political reform was smooth, and many backlogged political affairs were dealt with, and then documents were sent down.

In this way, after being held back at Qianqingmen for three full days, Zhu Youxiao finally dealt with all the trivial matters. Only then did he have the mood and leisure to think about the chaos in She'an far away.

"How about waiting for Qin Liangyu to quell the rebellion in the southeast and then go back to suppress it?" Zhu Youxiao thought casually, but when he thought that the south also involved naval battles and grain supplies, or that Jin Yiwei would be dispatched to arrest colluders,

, it would not calm down for a while, so he gave up the idea.

Qin Liangyu is not free!

Then, let Li Yuyu lead the Yulin Army to suppress it? Another idea came up. However, after the Yulin Army left, could the security of Gyeonggi be guaranteed with only 30,000 city defense troops?

"If we don't have enough manpower, we'll form another field army. Let's choose... Li Tao. This guy has good psychological quality, mental arithmetic skills, and mathematical skills. He's suitable for being an artillery commander. Let's use him to form a pure firearms force.

, try the idea of ​​a heartless cannon, and Xu Guangqi should also ask whether the range of the gun has been improved after so long."

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Youxiao finally made up his mind and let Li Tao take charge of the army alone to form a new field army. Then Li Yuyu and Ou Shuai's army went out to quell the rebellion. In this way, he could take care of both ends and train his direct lineage.

command ability.

However, the preparations are still busy, and Sichuan and Guizhou will have to wait for a while.
Chapter completed!